Pantech’s thin QWERTY candybar phone, the Slate, is now available through AT&T stores. The Slate was introduced together with AT&T Quickfire, Pantech Matrix and Samsung Propel like a new lineup of QWERTY phones with a messaging solution.
At this moment, the Slate is world’s thinnest QWERTY phone with a 2.2 inch LCD display, 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, Instant Messaging, mobile e-mail, and a mobile banking. In an attractive black design with a blue keypad, the handset is already sold for around $50 after rebate with a 2-year contract.
Pantech Slate
Nokia has been planning to launch its most anticipated phone, the Nokia N85 in North America. The N85 with 3G has been tested and approved by FCC but there is an important report that is floating everywhere. The Nokia N85 was released in the UK and it seems like UK has won N85 earlier than North America.
Nokia N85 is very similar and is known to be the successor to the popular N95 model however if compared to the N95, N85 has few upgraded features like a newer operating system (Symbian S60 Feature Pack 2) with larger battery, a dual-LED equipped camera, and the most recent versions of Nokia software such as Nokia Maps 2.0 and Mail for Exchange.
The N85 also features a 2.6″ OLED screen that improves visual quality beyond LCDs. Battery provides 363 hours of standby time and almost 7 hours of talk time. Nokia N85 has a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics with 30fps video recording capability, a 3.5mm audio output jack and a built-in FM transmitter.
We know that the Nokia N85 is being sold at 450 EUR.
Nokia N85
